Friday, July 5, 2019

Laity Rebel Against Priest Who Says Abusers Must be Forgiven — Pastor Says Forgiveness Not Necessary

Scandal: 70 worshipers and part of the church choir left Mass because of the sermon

Münster (kath.net) He had not been able to reach the “screaming mob” in the sermon with his voice and therefore could not explain his position and the biblically important meaning of forgiveness. In retrospect, the 79-year-old retiree Ulrich Zurkuhlen complained, as "Church and Life" reported. Zurkuhlen was critical, according to "Church and Life" that even bishops of priest-perpetrators would be spoken of as "criminals", even though they were also good pastors. The chaplain continued to explain to the editors that nobody was "only profoundly evil", but that often "goodness and guilt” are bound together in the same person. It is "gradually come to a time that the Church hierarchy after a long time can sometimes say a word of forgiveness.”

In the sermon in the Münster Holy-Spirit church, Zurkuhlen had spoken according to representation of worshipers in the sermon of two women, whose conversations were constantly circling around themselves and then have commented pejoratively on their deceased husbands. As a result, the priest pointed out the possibility of forgiveness. He then compared this to priests who had sexually abused minors, and they too should be forgiven. The chaplain affirmed this presentation to "Church and Life". At this point some parishioners were said to have interrupted the sermon and started a discussion with Zurkuhlen. Much of the community even gathered outside in the church square. Specifically, 70 worshipers and part of the church choir had left the Mass.

The responsible senior pastor in the parish association, Stefan Rau, explained to "Church and Life" that this analogy of blasphemous women and the victim-perpetrator relationship is "more than thoughtless". Victims have no obligation to forgive, such an impression should not be allowed to stand that way. He has invited those interested in a few days to a public conversation about the sermon. Rau considered it particularly bad that in this service those affected by sexual abuse were present.

A conversation has already been held with the chaplain, and further talks will follow, according to Rau. Disciplinary measures would not be taken against Zurkuhlen at first.

AMDG

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Elderly 68ers And Elderly Professional Catholics Gather to Defend Dismissed Diocesan Administrator

Edit: after looking at the photos, which I took a little time to find in the Salzburger Nachrichten, the “Mündige Christen” assembled here look more like the elderly Christians you find at We Are Church gatherings with crappy folk music . No offense to older people, but I’ll bet these people’s  children and grandchildren don’t even talk to them. The Apostolic Administrator, Guggenberger had been subjected to an apostolic visitation for reasons of financial irregularities and his management of the diocese and has been dismissed by Francis. It seems that these “Catholics” too find fault with Pope Francis and Cardinal Schönborn!





600 participants are showing signs of solidarity with former diocesan administrator Guggenberger and the resentment regarding the handling of ecclesiastical authorities with the allegations against the former ordinary of Gurk, Bishop Schwarz




Klagenfurt (kath.net/KAP) A rally as a sign of solidarity with the former Carinthian diocesan administrator, Engelbert Guggenberger and the indignation regarding the handling of ecclesiastical authorities with allegations against the former Gurk Bishop, Alois Schwarz, took place on Wednesday evening in Klagenfurt Cathedral. According to a report on the website of the diocese, about 600 people took part in the invitation to "Mature Christians" forum. Due to bad weather, the event was relocated from the cathedral square to the church.


Four speeches formed the main focus of the event. Works Council Chairman Gabriel Stabentheiner, former President of tCatholic Action Austria, Gerda Schaffelhofer, and Dean Yuri Buch spoke for the forum "Verbal Christians". Ordinary Chancellor Jakob Ibounig gave a speech. In the statements, the speakers expressed their solidarity with Guggenberger, the provost of the diocese, who had been deposed as diocesan administrator. At the same time, "a renewed and vehement demand was made for the uninterrupted publication by Rome of the results of the diocesan test report and the Apostolic Visitation of Archbishop Franz Lackner," according to the online report. At the same time, the role of the entire cathedral chapter should be honored during the one-year vacancy.

For the "solidarity and support" Cathedral Rector Guggenberger expressed his gratitude in the presence of the entire Gurk cathedral chapter to those present. The rally is impressive evidence that "the Catholic Church in Carinthia has raised its profile through the rather painful experiences of the past year," Guggenberger is quoted. The rally shows "on the occasion of a crisis situation, how Church can arrive in the 21st century".

It is about democratic culture, about "standards that we have already been thankful for  in society" and where the Church still needs to take action. If there is a lack of maturity, it is necessary to demand it, the Dean said. He is therefore "very grateful if you continue to work on the matter, we will do it," announced Guggenberger.

The "Forum" invited the participants to come to the publication of the results of the visitation every Wednesday at 18 clock in Klagenfurt Cathedral for prayer. A prayer for the country by pompous Peter Allmaier and a blessing prayer from Cathedral Rector Guggenberger formed the conclusion of the rally, which was musically accompanied by the trio Drava and the church choir St. Jakob / Rosental.

The rally took place without the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Gurk, Military Bishop Werner Freistetter, who was appointed by Pope Francis on Friday (June 28). He has replaced the just administrator Guggenberger who’d been elected just under a year as the head of the diocese and was to have led them until a new bishop was appointed.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG



Cardinal Burke Justifies Receiving Gifts From Disgraced Wheeling-Charleston Bishop

He denies anything scandalous was happening. The gifts weren’t excessive, he says.

[KNA] The US Cardinal and former Chief of the Vatican Supreme Court, Raymond Leo Burke, has defended himself for receiving bishop's money. The donations he received from Bishop William Bransfield, Bishop of the US Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, were either royalties for meetings with priests' groups of visitors or Christmas presents, and possibly also a gift on his being named Cardinal, Burke said in a written statement Tuesday evening (local time). According to his memory, these were generous but "not wasteful" sums.

According to a research by the Washington Post, Bransfield is said to have spent a total of US $350,000 on gifts of funds to ministers during his term of office from 2005 to September 2018, according to a Vatican investigation report. Among the beneficiaries, according to the report, were also young priests whom he allegedly molested. According to the newspaper, Bransfield transferred the funds from his private account, but later had them reimbursed by the diocese.

"Never had a reason to suspect"

Cardinal Burke emphasized that at the time, as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, he never accepted a check from someone who had a case before the court. "In the case of Bishop Bransfield's gifts, I never had a reason to suspect that anything was wrong," Burke explained.

The beneficiaries of Bransfield included Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, who led the investigations against Bransfield. According to the newspaper, Lori admitted that they had received $7,500 in gifts and $ 3,000 as expenses for two Masses in the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese.

The Vatican announced the retreat of Bishop Bransfield of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in September. Bransfield was suspended following his age-related resignation and may not perform any priestly or episcopal duties. Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Lori as interim leader, charged with investigating allegations against the emeritus bishop. The month-long preliminary investigations were led by Lori, according to his archdiocese with the help of a team of five lay experts. The results were sent to Rome in March. Lori’s investigation corresponds to a scheme enacted in January by the Archdiocese of Baltimore for dealing with abuse accusations against bishops. (Cph / KNA)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG

Austrian Bishop Says Pope Fears Final Judgement

Edit: one of the only decent bishops in the Austrian Bishops’ Conference.

July 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Austrian Bishop Andreas Laun, in a short commentary published on the Austrian news website Kath.net, reminds us that Pope Francis said in January 2019 that he will not abolish obligatory clerical celibacy, adding that he does not “want to appear before God with this decision.”
Bishop Laun quotes these latter papal words after first presenting Pope Francis’ words that “celibacy is a gift for the Church.” 
With it, Bishop Laun points out that Pope Francis is aware that the abolition of obligatory celibacy on his part would be a decision that he would one day have to answer for before God. 

AMDG

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Stupidville Hosts Evil Predator Cardinal

Edit: typical philosemitic neoconservatives.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (ChurchMilitant.com) - Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS) is taking serious heat for hosting Cdl. Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, for an upcoming conference.
Church Militant has confirmed that a long-time donor of 25 years called up the school and expressed outrage after learning FUS would be featuring Cupich in late July, demanding that his recent donations be returned or else he would sue the school. The donor has given more than $100,000 to FUS.
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Voice + Vision: The National Summit for Ministries with Youth and Young Adults is being held July 31–Aug. 2. Its purpose is "to give voice to what is happening in the United States in youth and young adult ministries and propose a vision on how we can move forward."



Stuttgart Pastor Turns His Father's House Into a "Den of Thieves" -- Bishop and DBK Don't Care

For two years, a Catholic church in Stuttgart have been profaned under the indulgence of the Dean and the Bishop: dance performances, theater, café, gallery - Even the DBK knows about it, none of them have a major problem

Stuttgart (kath.net/rn) "He said to them: The scriptures say: My house shall be a house of prayer. But you have made of it a robber's den." (Luke 19:46) The Bible quote is reminiscent of the conditions that have been taking place for two years in a Catholic church in Stuttgart. What happened? "We have a church, do you have an idea?" The Church of St. Mary in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart turned to the people of the city of Stuttgart with this question in 2017 and also got answers: St. Maria as a theater, café, function room, backdrop, installation, platform, gallery, marketplace. Especially bizarre: The parish committed almost everything with the toleration of the diocese. Thus, under the supervision of the pastoral assistant and the help of a party association, the church became a "robber's den" in the biblical sense, the parish understood this as a "process" and as a "space of coexistence."

Catholics from the parish and beyond have had enough of the profanation of the church for months. So 600 signatures were collected, there were first complaints to the dean responsible, then bishop and the German Bishops Conference (DBK). A Catholic from the parish says to kath.net: "Unfortunately, all without success. The Pastoral assistant describes his project, St. Maria with ... 'continue."

In the letter from Catholic bishop Gebhard Fürst in January, the protesters were only informed after more than three months of waiting that the bishop had "taken note of the case" and asked the relevant authorities to take care of it. It was claimed in the episcopal letter that "some details" of the project have since been changed.

Also in a letter from the German Bishops' Conference in March 2019, it was succinctly referred to the Episcopal Epistle, according to which it was ensured that St. Mary will continue to be recognizable and experienced in the city "as a place of faith and as a Roman Catholic Church."

What was the worth of the promises of the bishop and the DBK in the weeks after. So on Ash Wednesday (!) a dance performance took place in the church (admission 16 euros), at the end of March there was a clothing flea market with food and drink in the church. Lastly, there was even an exhibition about the mosques in Stuttgart in the church.

Contact Bishop Fuerst  

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG

Tuesday, July 2, 2019


Help Katholisches

Just click on the link and donate through PayPal.  It looks pretty straightforward.

Giuseppe Nardi is much maligned by his enemies even on this blog. I rely on him to see things correctly over seas and he has opened doors I would never have seen. He has contacts and has studied deeply the German scene which is so important to the Church’s sufferings today. I’m grateful for his continued apostolate which has helped so many Catholics see a way through this terrible time. God bless him!

Monday, July 1, 2019

Brazil’s President Warns of Violation of Sovereignty — Hildebrand Plans Power Grab in Amazon


(Brasilia) Brazil's new President Jair  Bolsonaro is "worried" about the possible decisions of the Amazon Synod convened by Pope Francis for next October. Literally, the head of state and government of the largest and most populous country in Latin America, in terms of area and population, said: "They want to rob us of the Amazon."

Bolsonaro responded to the Brazilian daily Valor Economico's last week's publication of the Instrumentum laboris, the working document for the Synod. It is "logical" that he is worried about the special synod. This is the second serious warning of the new Brazilian government about the Amazon Synod.

"They are trying to create new states on Brazilian territory."
"It's about the three A: an area of ​​136 million hectares from the Andes across the Amazon to the Atlantic. This large area should be placed under global control in the name of environmental protection. "

In plain text:

"They want to take the Amazon away from us, and we disagree with that. The press abroad claims that I want to destroy the Amazon. In fact, I want the Amazon to continue to be ours. "

For years under the slogan of the three A (in English: AAA Corridor, in Portuguese Corredor Tríplice A or Caminho da Anaconda, in Spanish Corredor AAA - Andes Amazonas Atlántico) forged outside Brazil political and economic plans for the Amazon basin. They aim to deprive Brazil of sovereignty over the vast, low-population, mineral-rich territory. The creeping loss of sovereignty should not come from war, but from international pressure in the name of environmental protection and the preservation of a "unique ecosystem". Bolsonaro speaks of an excuse.

Martin von Hildebrand and the Gaia Foundation

One of the representatives of this plan is the leftist Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia from 2010-2018. In a television program about his government program, Santos spoke in February 2015 about the Triple A Plan and its relationship to ethnologist Martin von Hildebrand, a grandson of the Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Martin von Hildebrand explains Msgr. Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo the AAA Corridor.
Martin von Hildebrand declares in September 2017 Msgr. Sanchez Sorondo the AAA Corridor.

Born in New York in 1943, Martin von Hildebrand grew up in Colombia, where his parents founded the country's first private university in 1949. He graduated in 1968 and spent several months with the rainforest Indians. Since then he has been campaigning for their rights and wants to "give back" to them an area the size of the old Federal Republic of Germany. As early as 1994, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit wrote: "The Rio Earth Summit made the rescue of the tropical rainforest the topic of world politics." The driving force behind this was Martin von Hildebrand. He is convinced that only the mysterious mythical-mystical "knowledge" of the Indians could "save" the rainforest. In the background there is a racial conflict, because "the whites" were identified as enemies. An enemy recognition in which whites energetically helped.

One of them, Martin von Hildebrand, founded the network Fundación Gaia Amazonas, which is supported by the European Commission and countries such as Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark. Close ties also exist with the British royal family. José Lutzenberger worked closely with the foundation. The son of Bavarian emigrants was Brazil's Minister of the Environment from 1990-1992. Together with Hildebrand, he had in common not only that they were awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. Lutzenberger was accused of having accepted "too much money" from Hildebrand's Foundation in his term of office and therefore ignored the Brazilian environmental protection organizations and listened to foreign votes. Lutzenberger had already founded in 1987 a foundation called Gaia. Hildebrand gave the same name to his foundation founded in 1990. Gaia stands for various forms of a "mother earth" understanding, which extends to cult-like and misanthropic characteristics.

Hildebrand is fascinated by the animistic cultures and religions of the Indians, which he describes as
a specific "cosmology".

Pantheism in the instrumentum laboris of the Amazon Synod

This non-church, pantheistic "cosmological view" of the Indians found its way into the Instrumentum laboris for the Amazon Synod. Close ties exist between the Gaia Foundation of Martin von Hildebrand and Curial Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the political arm of Pope Francis and Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences. Hildebrand himself explained in September 2017 the AAA Corridor to Sorondo.

Hildebrand said back then that he had spun all threads as a networker. For the implementation of the corridor is "ready. “ A year later, however, the election of Jair Bolsonaro made the plan a bummer.

The AAA Corridor, represented by the Gaia Foundation of Martin von Hildebrand.
The pantheistic influences in the Instrumentum laboris were analyzed by Prof. Roberto de Mattei: Amazon Synod: Gentlemen Cardinals and Bishops, do you really want such a Church?  All dubious elements discovered by him in the synod paper can also be found on the website of Fundacion Gaia Amazonas. The Indians claim, and Hildebrand seems to be convinced that their shamans in the Amazon rainforest could influence and cure "energy processes". Because of the health of the world he must therefore be deprived of foreign, that is, non-indigenous, human influences.

In this archaic context, to put it euphemistically, Marxist, liberation theological, indigenist and climate-mystery currents converge into an unusual alliance. Behind the alleged goals for the protection of indigenous rights, equality, CO2 reduction and biodiversity, especially in Brazil solid economic interests are suspected, to tighten the resources of the huge area of ​​control by certain forces, or at least to withdraw the sovereignty of Brazil and the the strongest emerging country in Latin America.

Keep in mind that Brazil is still a giant white spot on the map of the abortion lobby. The killing of unborn children is only allowed very restrictively. In 2016, WHO and other UN agencies, in concert with NGOs and mass media funded by billionaire foundations, attempted to legalize abortion in Brazil. The pretext was to serve the Zika panic generated by the combined forces. An attempt that failed. With which also the Zika virus disappeared from one day to the next.

Cardinal Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, now retired by Pope Francis, spoke of "Herodians with ties in the United Nations want to kill children".

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG 

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Orthodox Church in Russia Experiencing a Real Springtime

[Russian Insider] The Russian Orthodox Church is seeing the highest numbers ever training for priesthood, according to an independent Russian news agency.

The sharp rise in seminary admissions across the church's 261 dioceses, known as eparchies, means 1,593 ordinands are expected to begin studies, a 19 per cent increase from the  last year, Interfax reported.

Another 827 young men will also start the church's preparation course, 25 percent more than the previous year.

On top of that 5,877 seminarians are currently preparing for ordination, according to the Tablet.
 
After enduring systematic persecution under Soviet rule, Vladimir Putin has made the Russian Orthodox Church emblematic of the socially conservative values his rule promotes.

Around 70 per cent of the population are now members of the ROC and it has grown to be the largest and most powerful of the 14 Orthodox denominations with 144 million members, 368 bishops and about 40,000 priests and deacons.

By contrast to the ROC's dominance, the Roman Catholic church is Russia has just four dioceses with a membership of about 773,000 – just 0.5 per cent of the population – according to the Vatican's 2017 Annuario Pontificio. [Not pointing out how the Orthodox bellyache when Catholics try to establish new diocese in Russia while they do so with no consideration at all in the West.]

The startling levels of growth are demonstrated in the dramatic increase in Orthodox places of worship in Russia. At the end of Communist rule in 1991, just 6,000 existed but now there are 36,000 – an average of three new places of worship every day. 

Source: Christian Today

AMDG

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Homosexuality and the Rebellion Against Nature

Edit: a regular reader recommends this blogger’s work and I thought I’d highlight it. Here it is!

Some considerations.

[Corvine’s Catholic Corner] Homosexuals rebel. They seek, for reasons of having to live with themselves, to redefine what is "natural". That's what they do. If humans were animals, we'd do whatever they'd want and not have to ratinoalize it. But we're the Rational Animals, so we have to justify ourelves -- to ourselves and to everyone else.

And also, concurrent to all that, and no doubt because of all that, the larger modern society intensely dislikes any discusson of "Nature."

All the sexual deviancy stuff that is throttling our civilization keeps forcing us, as it were, to reinvent the moral wheel. To try to explain how human morality is so intrinsically tied to our nature. We have to explain to adulterers, homosexuals, and whoever else standsfor Rebellion against Nature, what is human society for. What human life is about. Is it for “doing our own thing" or are we responsible for one another? Especially our children? Are we "trapped" by our biological nature -- being male, being female -- and having to get on with life on that basis, or are we somehow free to do whatever we want? Is life all about living the life we are biologically dealt, or tossing the cards and rebelling against what we are? As in what that old Devil Aleister Crowley used to say, "Do whatever you want is the whole of the law".

Taking God out out the question for a moment (can't really be taken out, but for the sake of the argument): human life consists of being conceived, gestated, born, being hopelessly helpless for YEARS, desperately needing both parents, raised only slowly, time consumingly, and at serious financial expense, finally reaching adulthood physically in the later teen years. That cannot be escaped from. And that's just the physical side to it. To raise a sane, functioning, self-reliant adult takes massive effort -- of both parents and the larger society backing them up! This is what life is about. That is, if we want a future for the human race at all. "The future belongs to those who show up."

On the other hand, Homosexuals -- just as much as easy divorce advocates, "open marriage" proponents, etc. are, (whether seemingly mild or aggressive) continually calling all that -- the basics -- in question. They need it explained over and over again and they're just not buying it. It's like trying to play a game of baseball with an opposing team that forgets how to play the game by the beginning of every inning: We have to take time to explain and re-explain and re-re-explain the rules of life -- even to the basic points of what our body parts are for! -- ALL THE TIME, and they keeping asking, "Why these rules? Let us play it the way we want."

If we give in and let them go play the game they way they want, it won't work because WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. We are == in our nature -- humans, and our morality has to reflect that. No matter how "traditional" or "conservative" specific individuals might be, overall, the Rebels Against Nature just create moral chaos that mirrors their physical chaos, and it engenders social collapse. History shows that again and again.

An Préachán

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Fake Catholic Radio Show

Edit: ofcourse, no one is thinking of calling in to ridicule Somechimp and her slanderous pal, the malodorous Shea! That would be funny!

Catholic and Enjoying It will be on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) every Monday night.  We will be discussing life, the universe, and everything from a Catholic [Sic] perspective and giving ourselves up to general jollification for the hour.  You can listen here and you can call into the show at 1-866-333-6279 while we are on the air to yak, argue, demand I sing, or sing yourself.
My guest tonight is my old friend Simcha Fisher, author of the I Have to Sit Downblog. Tonight we will check in on what’s she is up to and yak about it all.
Listen in tonight and give us a call!
AMDG

Monday, June 24, 2019

Did God Express His Indignation Over Pope Francis?


By David Martin

On June 23, the Feast of Corpus Christi, Pope Francis in his Sunday Mass sermon made what appeared to be an explicitly heretical statement. Speaking on the Holy Eucharist, he said:

"In the presence of the Eucharist, Jesus who becomes bread, this simple bread that contains the entire reality of the Church [Christ], let us learn to bless all that we have, to praise God, to bless and not curse all that has led us to this moment, and to speak words of encouragement to others."

The theological fact is that Jesus does not "become bread," but vice-versa. To say that Jesus becomes bread implies that Jesus changes and becomes something else, i.e. bread, so that only the substance of bread is present in the consecrated Host. This is what Protestants believe.


The truth is that during the Sacrifice of the Mass, the "simple bread" ceases and becomes Christ, so that only the substance of Christ is present. As such, the bread cannot “contain” Christ because the bread is not there to contain Him. This is why the physical properties of the consecrated Host are called the accidents or sacred species, because cessation of the bread occurs during the consecration of the Mass.

By saying that the bread "contains" Jesus, Francis is also promoting consubstantiation, the coexistence of two substances together, i.e. Jesus and bread, which is what Luther taught and which the Church condemns.

Francis says that “in the presence of the Eucharist,” we should “learn to bless all that we have.” Shall we bless our adultery too as proposed in Amoris Laetitia? What about learning to renounce all and to bless only God? Shouldn't the entire Church be on its knees before Christ?


Refuses to Kneel

As always, Francis did not kneel before the Blessed Sacrament at this year’s Corpus Christi procession, but stood between the kneeler and the altar, ignoring the kneeler. He refuses to bend a knee to his God, yet he otherwise loves kneeling, especially in front of migrants, prisoners, homosexuals or politicians. https://gloria.tv/article/unpToENcSRiQ32Fkn42hLsEGW

Quake Jolts Rome   

Not surprisingly, an earthquake shook the city of Rome a few hours after Francis’ address. Italy’s Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) put the preliminary magnitude at 3.7. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre put the magnitude slightly higher, at 3.9.

Was this a sign from God? Was The Lord expressing His indignation over Francis’ error?